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Monday, January 19, 2015

SUPREME WORD DU JOUR: ARENICOLOUS!!

SUPREME WORD DU JOUR:  

ARENICOLOUS



PRONUNCIATION:
(ar-uh-NIK-uh-luhs)

MEANING: adjective: Living, growing, or burrowing in sand.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin harena/arena (sand) + colere (to inhabit). Earliest documented use: 1851


USAGE:
“‘Where have you disappeared to? Where have you been living?’ I asked Tariq. ... ‘Are you trying to tell me that he lives like arenicolous worms?’”
Jamal S. Jumah; The Artistic Visage of Dalia; Xlibris; 2010
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